#his competitor would turn the town into and that everyone there owes their happiness and livelyhood to him

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I was supposed to just post about the Lamb Chop dog toy and move on but of course I forgot to do it. And I'm not too big on the one for today either but it's more a personal issue than anything. I'm not letting it get to me too bad because the song I had for yesterday is close to how I feel in its emotions if not actually relevant to the situation.

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Life inside the RCP cult

The post below —written by @InfiniteCoincid for his blog— provides an excellent insight into the Revolutionary Communist Party, where the LM Network that would then end up grouping around @spikedonline, first got together. 

We post it here in the spirit of keeping everything in one place

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My days in a far-right troll cult

In Sheffield as of 1987 anyone walking through the shopping precinct in the centre of town ran a gauntlet of left-wing newspaper sellers. The 14-year-old me often generally managed to avoid handing over 30p or so of my hard-earned paper round money for Socialist Worker, but on occasion I found myself buttonholed by some garrulous and well-presented young people pushing a publication called ‘The Next Step’. None of them appeared to be local, and they were, by comparison with their competitors, refreshingly unconcerned with whatever workers’ struggles were going on in South Yorkshire at the time. I didn’t get the ideological distinctions between the Revolutionary Communist Party, as they were called, and the Socialist Workers, but I suspect that the way they responded whenever I asked about such things – they were more than happy to slag off their rivals on the left – appealed to my disaffected sensibilities and inchoate contrarian instincts. I started going to meetings at which they pressed a copy of Lenin’s ‘What is to be done’ on me, and also made me shell out for a copy of a book called ‘Moral Panics’, which I did read and found splenetically entertaining if sometimes puzzing at the level of basic logical argumentation.

Although I had trouble keeping up with their sometimes contradictory-seeming political arguments, they were at least friendly, relatively unpatronising and certainly socially useful. They took me to the Leadmill to see a band who later turned out to be Deacon Blue and got me properly drunk, all the time shouting in my ear about stuff I really didn’t know much about. I do remember that one of my new comrades, taking issue with a stranger’s St George’s badge, began shouting at them about Northern Ireland and started a dancefloor ruckus. We also took a trip to London to the gay pride carnival, or as it was at the time, demo, where I had a distinctly Life of Brian moment upon seeing a banner from the Revolutionary Communist Group. I asked the natural question, only to be told that they were ‘wankers’. Then the general election came around, and we ourselves stopped being the RCP, turning instead into something called the Red Front, under which monicker we went banging on doors in search of people to disagree with. Our campaign ended with 107 votes, which was considered a victory as at least it was more than the possibly dead bloke from some basically defunct version of the Communist Party had received. Eventually other aspects of teenagehood took over and I, despite some tugging on their part (I think I still owe them £1.75 for the Lenin book, which they were keen to get hold of), I succeeded in drifting away.

From then on I kept an occasional eye on what they were up to but maintained my distance. I remember joining all my fellow delegates in turning my back as an RCP member spoke up at NUS conference, but I don’t remember why. Although I was living in Ireland at the time, I was vaguely aware that they were ubiquitous in the mid-1990s, standing on street corners looking slick and pushing subscriptions to their magazine Living Marxism. It had entertaining covers and contained articles written from a consistently libertarian standpoint, with elaborate arguments that would sort of persuade you that what you had thought about (for a not-entirely-random example) the environment was wrong, but with an uncanny feeling that you were the victim of some sort of trick or part of a game that wasn’t actually all that much fun to play. After it became clear that they were prepared to perpetrate full-on atrocity denial in order to promote their wilfully exasperating view of the world, it was very hard for anyone to take anything they said seriously. Few would have expected them to continue to deepen their influence in British life, but it seems they are far more determined and cunning than anyone might have thought.

Given their relatively rapid en masse shift away from the left, there’s been a ongoing mystery of why they do what they do, particularly since (through their website Spiked) they started selling their contrarian punditry to corporations and the right-wing media. From my own experiences and from having followed their development through articles such as this and this, I suspect they are a bit of a sect, but one in which the personal bonds override and yet (if we consider their commitment to the politics of self-interest) determine their collective ideological stance. The members of the core group, largely unchanged for the last thirty of so years, have managed to cave out steady careers in the media, with a shared ideological bent seemingly determined by the desire not just to provoke but to (as we now understand it) troll. Their contrarianism far surpasses anything I might have identified with as a teenager.

The LRB piece linked to above refers to this teenage aspect, the way their rhetorical insistence that everyone ‘act like grown-ups’ seems to betray an adolescent mindset. (It also mentions that Frank Furedi’s dependence on newspaper articles for his source material suggests that his reputation as a serious academic is not entirely deserved.) They continue to have a fixation on the young, with their successive front projects such as the Manifesto Club, the East London Science School and WorldWrite (of which 1987’s election candidate is now director) aimed directly at teenagers. Now that schools are up for grabs by anyone with enough cash, regardless of their ideological proclivities, they seem to be enjoying more direct access to young minds. The prominence of Brendan O’Neill as a steadfastly obnoxious commentator for my new-not-favourite newspaper The Telegraph has (re)alerted many to the dangers of their project, which now seems to dovetail with certain aspects of a hard-right agenda, particularly outright climate denial and the abuse of the notion of ‘free speech’ to legitimate hate speech. This site has also written this week of the insidious influence they also seem to enjoy in sections of the BBC. (This excellent Tumblr blog Twitter feed is also extremely informative on such matters, with an very useful primer to countering their bullshit available here.) Of course, it’s something of a provocative exaggeration to call the Spiked/LM/RCP crowd a far-right troll cult, just as it’s completely absurd to call the #metoo phenomenon a ‘moral panic’ and a ‘modern day Salem’ or claim that misplaced hysteria over climate change caused the Grenfell fire. But from my experiences as an impressionable young person subjected to their influence, combined with the fact that their current agenda is so close to that of the global far-right as to make very little meaningful difference, this is not a group of people who should be allowed anywhere near schools.

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The 10 Best Business Quotes to Inspire Success

What makes you successful in business?

Is it climbing the corporate ladder? Or retiring early to spend more time with your kids? Turning your side hustle into a full-time gig?

The answer, of course, is up to you. Whatever dreams you set your mind to can be achieved with hard work, perseverance, and yes, a little luck.

The path to success can be made a little straighter by listening to the wisdom of others and learning from their failures as well as their triumphs. With that in mind, here are ten quotes to inspire you to achieve greatness in whatever realm you choose.

Business Quotes on Leadership

1. “You don't build a business, you build people, then people build the business.” – Zig Ziglar

If you genuinely want to be successful in business, at some point, you will need to learn to be a great manager and developer of other people.

It is a skill that must be learned. Most people are not naturally gifted leaders. In my own company, I've seen many incredibly talented engineers get promoted to leadership roles for no other reason than that it's the next step up the ladder. And I've seen many become spectacularly bad managers.

The skills required to be a great engineer and a great manager are very different. But if you can learn how to help other people be the best at what they do, you have the key to building a successful business.

2. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight Eisenhower

Everyone wants to feel like what they do matters. And while it may seem self-serving at first, convincing others that they want to do something you want done is good for everyone.

Only a true leader can combine an understanding of the business need, human psychology, and deep care for others in a way that empowers your employees to be the best version of themselves and achieve the goals set before them.

Business Quotes on Perseverance

3. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

Life is not always easy. Winston Churchill would know. Comparing your struggles to his should give you some perspective.

Perseverance is the key to moving forward. If every entrepreneur gave up after their first failure, the world would be a much different place. What defines your life and career is more often how you respond to the struggle than whether or not you reach the mountaintop of success.

One of my entrepreneurial ventures, together with my wife, is real estate investing. There are countless stories of times we could have (and maybe should have) thrown in the towel. Here are a few examples.

We accidentally bought an illegally subdivided duplex and lost a lot of time and money trying to make it legal.

When we found the budget on our very first renovation came in over double what we had thought.

When our first contractor stopped communicating with us, and we found out he had skipped town with a large chunk of our money.

But thankfully, we didn't let those things stop us. We learned how to invest in real estate with no money when we ran out of cash after our first deal. We figured out how to do better due diligence before buying properties, and formed relationships with some great contractors for future deals.

Despite our setbacks (or even because of them), we are better real estate investors now.

4. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

Everyone is always looking for the “secret” to success. As if watching a particular YouTube video or taking a course from that one guru that flaunts his Lamborghini all the time will catapult you to the top.

Many people have spent thousands of dollars and countless years of their lives pursuing speakers, seminars, and other get-rich-quick propaganda to try to find the shortcut to Success.

Ironically, that time and money invested in executing a simple idea would have almost guaranteed a greater yield. The smart business owner knows that there is no better teacher than experience and failure, and hard work is a prerequisite for success.

While there are things you can do to make money fast, most of them are quick wins and will not produce life-altering streams of income or the Success that is promised by gurus.

5. “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” – Nolan Bushnell

In my own business, I help other people find ways to make extra money through side jobs or starting their own small business. It's not rocket science, and almost anyone can be successful if they try.

But do you know what separates those that succeed and make money and those that don't? It's almost always deciding to do something rather than nothing.

I've done my fair share of “planning to plan” and “thinking about doing”, but what actually gets results is getting down to business and doing the work.

6. “The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” – Henry Ford

That is a warning to pay less attention to what everyone else is doing and focus more on how to make your product or service better.

Do you think Steve Jobs was worried about what Microsoft or IBM was doing when he was disrupting the tech space? Or do you think Elon Musk spends his nights researching what General Motors is up to?

In case you didn't catch the rhetorical nature of the questions, the answer is a definite no.

While understanding your competition is a good thing up to a point, obsessing about them can blind you to your innovative ideas, and distract you from work needed to make your product stand out.

Quotes on Happiness and Priorities

7. “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett

If you want to fast track your education and learn from one of the most successful businessmen of all time, I highly recommend you read every single one of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder newsletters.

He gives real, common-sense advice that most people probably already know, but don't really live their life as they believe it. Warren Buffet is one of those people that became wildly successful by following his own simple rules.

One example of that is the quote above – simple, but not easy. Especially in the modern era, there are a million things always clamoring for your attention. But if you want to be successful at one thing, you need to tune out the distractions and say no to almost everything else. Even when those distractions could be worthy causes in and of themselves.

8. “My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” – Steve Jobs

While pursuing success, don't forget to live your life. Money can buy a lot of things, but it can't buy time.

As a father with two young kids, I realized recently that between all of my entrepreneurial side projects and just the general busyness of life, I was missing out on time I would never get back with them. I had to implement Warren Buffet's advice from the previous quote and just say “no” to a lot of things in my life.

Only you can decide what you define as success, and how you choose to spend your time. But make sure it's a deliberate choice, and you don't float along with the current for 40+ years before realizing you are too far from shore to make it back.

9. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

While I don't quite subscribe to the notion that “if you love what you do, you'll never work another day in your life”, I do believe there must be some element of passion in your work ever to achieve real success.

It's hard to do anything over a 40+ year working career, much less something you don't enjoy.

Business Quotes on… When to Ignore Business Quotes

10. “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G.K. Chesterton

Sometimes the best advice is to just ignore everyone's advice and do your own thing. When the founder of Spanx, Sara Blakely, asked for feedback on her initial idea, most people were critical of it or said if it were a good idea, someone would have done it already.

It turns out it was a brilliant idea, and she became the youngest self-made female billionaire ever.

There are countless stories of entrepreneurs who ignored everyone's advice and did something anyway to great Success. Sometimes we humans are skeptical of new ideas, and don't know what we want until we have it (ahem, iPhone anyone?)

Or maybe you'll venture off into the great unknown and experience spectacular failure, which is just another learning opportunity in the entrepreneurial process.

The motivation for Business Success

Wherever life and business take you, I hope these quotes instill wisdom and knowledge and inspire you to persevere through trials knowing some of the most successful people alive have struggled as well.

As any entrepreneur would tell you, there is no such thing as an overnight success. But with steady, hard work, you can achieve greatness in almost anything – business or otherwise.

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The Top 10 Business Quotes to Inspire Success NOW!

The 10 Best Business Quotes to Inspire Success

[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest post from Andrew Herrig the founder of Wealthy Nickel where he writes about all things personal finance. He has a passion for helping people pursue financial freedom through saving money, making money, and building wealth. Andrew documents his family’s journey to financial independence through side hustles while raising 2 kids on a single income]

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What makes you successful in business? Is it climbing the corporate ladder? Or retiring early to spend more time with your kids? Turning your side hustle into a full-time gig?

The answer, of course, is up to you. Whatever dreams you set your mind to can be achieved with hard work, perseverance, and yes, a little luck.

The path to success can be made a little straighter by listening to the wisdom of others and learning from their failures as well as their triumphs. With that in mind, here are ten quotes to inspire you to achieve greatness in whatever realm you choose.

10 Business Quotes on Leadership

1. “You don’t build a business, you build people, then people build the business.” – Zig Ziglar

If you genuinely want to be successful in business, at some point, you will need to learn to be a great manager and developer of other people.

It is a skill that must be learned. Most people are not naturally gifted leaders. In my own company, I’ve seen many incredibly talented engineers get promoted to leadership roles for no other reason than that it’s the next step up the ladder. And I’ve seen many become spectacularly bad managers.

The skills required to be a great engineer and a great manager are very different. But if you can learn how to help other people be the best at what they do, you have the key to building a successful business.

2. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight Eisenhower

Everyone wants to feel like what they do matters. And while it may seem self-serving at first, convincing others that they want to do something you want done is good for everyone.

Only a true leader can combine an understanding of the business need, human psychology, and deep care for others in a way that empowers your employees to be the best version of themselves and achieve the goals set before them.

Business Quotes on Perseverance

3. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

Life is not always easy. Winston Churchill would know. Comparing your struggles to his should give you some perspective.

Perseverance is the key to moving forward. If every entrepreneur gave up after their first failure, the world would be a much different place. What defines your life and career is more often how you respond to the struggle than whether or not you reach the mountaintop of success.

One of my entrepreneurial ventures, together with my wife, is real estate investing. There are countless stories of times we could have (and maybe should have) thrown in the towel. Here are a few examples.

We accidentally bought an illegally subdivided duplex and lost a lot of time and money trying to make it legal.

When we found the budget on our very first renovation came in over double what we had thought.

When our first contractor stopped communicating with us, and we found out he had skipped town with a large chunk of our money.

But thankfully, we didn’t let those things stop us. We learned how to invest in real estate with no money when we ran out of cash after our first deal.

We figured out how to do better due diligence before buying properties, and formed relationships with some great contractors for future deals.

Despite our setbacks (or even because of them), we are better real estate investors now.

4. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

Everyone is always looking for the “secret” to success.

As if watching a particular YouTube video or taking a course from that one guru that flaunts his Lamborghini all the time will catapult you to the top.

Many people have spent thousands of dollars and countless years of their lives pursuing speakers, seminars, and other get-rich-quick propaganda to try to find the shortcut to Success.

Ironically, that time and money invested in executing a simple idea would have almost guaranteed a greater yield. The smart business owner knows that there is no better teacher than experience and failure, and hard work is a prerequisite for success.

While there are things you can do to make money fast, most of them are quick wins and will not produce life-altering streams of income or the Success that is promised by gurus.

5. “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” – Nolan Bushnell

In my own business, I help other people find ways to make extra money through side jobs or starting their own small business. It’s not rocket science, and almost anyone can be successful if they try.

But do you know what separates those that succeed and make money and those that don’t? It’s almost always deciding to do something rather than nothing.

I’ve done my fair share of “planning to plan” and “thinking about doing”, but what actually gets results is getting down to business and doing the work.

6. “The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” – Henry Ford

That is a warning to pay less attention to what everyone else is doing and focus more on how to make your product or service better.

Do you think Steve Jobs was worried about what Microsoft or IBM was doing when he was disrupting the tech space? Or do you think Elon Musk spends his nights researching what General Motors is up to?

In case you didn’t catch the rhetorical nature of the questions, the answer is a definite no.

While understanding your competition is a good thing up to a point, obsessing about them can blind you to your innovative ideas, and distract you from work needed to make your product stand out.

Business Quotes on Happiness and Priorities

7. “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett

If you want to fast track your education and learn from one of the most successful businessmen of all time, I highly recommend you read every single one of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder newsletters.

He gives real, common-sense advice that most people probably already know, but don’t really live their life as they believe it. Warren Buffet is one of those people that became wildly successful by following his own simple rules.

One example of that is the quote above – simple, but not easy. Especially in the modern era, there are a million things always clamoring for your attention.

But if you want to be successful at one thing, you need to tune out the distractions and say no to almost everything else. Even when those distractions could be worthy causes in and of themselves.

8. “My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” – Steve Jobs

While pursuing success, don’t forget to live your life. Money can buy a lot of things, but it can’t buy time.

As a father with two young kids, I realized recently that between all of my entrepreneurial side projects and just the general busyness of life, I was missing out on time I would never get back with them. I had to implement Warren Buffet’s advice from the previous quote and just say “no” to a lot of things in my life.

Only you can decide what you define as success, and how you choose to spend your time. But make sure it’s a deliberate choice, and you don’t float along with the current for 40+ years before realizing you are too far from shore to make it back.

9. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

While I don’t quite subscribe to the notion that “if you love what you do, you’ll never work another day in your life“, I do believe there must be some element of passion in your work ever to achieve real success.

It’s hard to do anything over a 40+ year working career, much less something you don’t enjoy.

Business Quotes on… When to Ignore Business Quotes

10. “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G.K. Chesterton

Sometimes the best advice is to just ignore everyone’s advice and do your own thing. When the founder of Spanx, Sara Blakely, asked for feedback on her initial idea, most people were critical of it or said if it were a good idea, someone would have done it already.

It turns out it was a brilliant idea, and she became the youngest self-made female billionaire ever.

There are countless stories of entrepreneurs who ignored everyone’s advice and did something anyway to great Success. Sometimes we humans are skeptical of new ideas, and don’t know what we want until we have it (ahem, iPhone anyone?)

Or maybe you’ll venture off into the great unknown and experience spectacular failure, which is just another learning opportunity in the entrepreneurial process.

The motivation for Business Success

Wherever life and business take you, I hope these quotes instill wisdom and knowledge and inspire you to persevere through trials knowing some of the most successful people alive have struggled as well.

As any entrepreneur would tell you, there is no such thing as an overnight success. But with steady, hard work, you can achieve greatness in almost anything – business or otherwise.

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The 10 Best Business Quotes to Inspire Success

What makes you successful in business? Is it climbing the corporate ladder? Or retiring early to spend more time with your kids? Turning your side hustle into a full-time gig?

The answer, of course, is up to you. Whatever dreams you set your mind to can be achieved with hard work, perseverance, and yes, a little luck.

The path to success can be made a little straighter by listening to the wisdom of others and learning from their failures as well as their triumphs. With that in mind, here are ten quotes to inspire you to achieve greatness in whatever realm you choose.

Business Quotes on Leadership

1. “You don't build a business, you build people, then people build the business.” – Zig Ziglar

If you genuinely want to be successful in business, at some point, you will need to learn to be a great manager and developer of other people.

It is a skill that must be learned. Most people are not naturally gifted leaders. In my own company, I've seen many incredibly talented engineers get promoted to leadership roles for no other reason than that it's the next step up the ladder. And I've seen many become spectacularly bad managers.

The skills required to be a great engineer and a great manager are very different. But if you can learn how to help other people be the best at what they do, you have the key to building a successful business.

2. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight Eisenhower

Everyone wants to feel like what they do matters. And while it may seem self-serving at first, convincing others that they want to do something you want done is good for everyone.

Only a true leader can combine an understanding of the business need, human psychology, and deep care for others in a way that empowers your employees to be the best version of themselves and achieve the goals set before them.

Business Quotes on Perseverance

3. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

Life is not always easy. Winston Churchill would know. Comparing your struggles to his should give you some perspective.

Perseverance is the key to moving forward. If every entrepreneur gave up after their first failure, the world would be a much different place. What defines your life and career is more often how you respond to the struggle than whether or not you reach the mountaintop of success.

One of my entrepreneurial ventures, together with my wife, is real estate investing. There are countless stories of times we could have (and maybe should have) thrown in the towel. Here are a few examples.

We accidentally bought an illegally subdivided duplex and lost a lot of time and money trying to make it legal.

When we found the budget on our very first renovation came in over double what we had thought.

When our first contractor stopped communicating with us, and we found out he had skipped town with a large chunk of our money.

But thankfully, we didn't let those things stop us. We learned how to invest in real estate with no money when we ran out of cash after our first deal. We figured out how to do better due diligence before buying properties, and formed relationships with some great contractors for future deals.

Despite our setbacks (or even because of them), we are better real estate investors now.

4. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

Everyone is always looking for the “secret” to success. As if watching a particular YouTube video or taking a course from that one guru that flaunts his Lamborghini all the time will catapult you to the top.

Many people have spent thousands of dollars and countless years of their lives pursuing speakers, seminars, and other get-rich-quick propaganda to try to find the shortcut to Success.

Ironically, that time and money invested in executing a simple idea would have almost guaranteed a greater yield. The smart business owner knows that there is no better teacher than experience and failure, and hard work is a prerequisite for success.

While there are things you can do to make money fast, most of them are quick wins and will not produce life-altering streams of income or the Success that is promised by gurus.

5. “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” – Nolan Bushnell

In my own business, I help other people find ways to make extra money through side jobs or starting their own small business. It's not rocket science, and almost anyone can be successful if they try.

But do you know what separates those that succeed and make money and those that don't? It's almost always deciding to do something rather than nothing.

I've done my fair share of “planning to plan” and “thinking about doing”, but what actually gets results is getting down to business and doing the work.

6. “The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” – Henry Ford

That is a warning to pay less attention to what everyone else is doing and focus more on how to make your product or service better.

Do you think Steve Jobs was worried about what Microsoft or IBM was doing when he was disrupting the tech space? Or do you think Elon Musk spends his nights researching what General Motors is up to?

In case you didn't catch the rhetorical nature of the questions, the answer is a definite no.

While understanding your competition is a good thing up to a point, obsessing about them can blind you to your innovative ideas, and distract you from work needed to make your product stand out.

Business Quotes on Happiness and Priorities

7. “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett

If you want to fast track your education and learn from one of the most successful businessmen of all time, I highly recommend you read every single one of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder newsletters.

He gives real, common-sense advice that most people probably already know, but don't really live their life as they believe it. Warren Buffet is one of those people that became wildly successful by following his own simple rules.

One example of that is the quote above – simple, but not easy. Especially in the modern era, there are a million things always clamoring for your attention. But if you want to be successful at one thing, you need to tune out the distractions and say no to almost everything else. Even when those distractions could be worthy causes in and of themselves.

8. “My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” – Steve Jobs

While pursuing success, don't forget to live your life. Money can buy a lot of things, but it can't buy time.

As a father with two young kids, I realized recently that between all of my entrepreneurial side projects and just the general busyness of life, I was missing out on time I would never get back with them. I had to implement Warren Buffet's advice from the previous quote and just say “no” to a lot of things in my life.

Only you can decide what you define as success, and how you choose to spend your time. But make sure it's a deliberate choice, and you don't float along with the current for 40+ years before realizing you are too far from shore to make it back.

9. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

While I don't quite subscribe to the notion that “if you love what you do, you'll never work another day in your life”, I do believe there must be some element of passion in your work ever to achieve real success.

It's hard to do anything over a 40+ year working career, much less something you don't enjoy.

Business Quotes on… When to Ignore Business Quotes

10. “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G.K. Chesterton

Sometimes the best advice is to just ignore everyone's advice and do your own thing. When the founder of Spanx, Sara Blakely, asked for feedback on her initial idea, most people were critical of it or said if it were a good idea, someone would have done it already.

It turns out it was a brilliant idea, and she became the youngest self-made female billionaire ever.

There are countless stories of entrepreneurs who ignored everyone's advice and did something anyway to great Success. Sometimes we humans are skeptical of new ideas, and don't know what we want until we have it (ahem, iPhone anyone?)

Or maybe you'll venture off into the great unknown and experience spectacular failure, which is just another learning opportunity in the entrepreneurial process.

The motivation for Business Success

Wherever life and business take you, I hope these quotes instill wisdom and knowledge and inspire you to persevere through trials knowing some of the most successful people alive have struggled as well.

As any entrepreneur would tell you, there is no such thing as an overnight success. But with steady, hard work, you can achieve greatness in almost anything – business or otherwise.

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